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willowbird · 3 years

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Hey! For the au + trope + prompt thing, could you do 1 for au, 9 for trope and 27 for prompt with pynch?

(P.S: I just remembered you have already done one with pynch, so you can do this one with another ship of your choosing if this one feels repetitive!)

Roommates AU, strangers to lovers, “that was a very bad idea. 0/10 would not recommend.” ~ for pynch!

I am more than happy to write 10,000 roommate aus for these idiots <3

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It all started with an only mildly suspicious ad on craigslist:

Roommate needed $275/mo - utilities included must be ok with corvids good w/cars a plus - rent discount if u can prove it

Adam wasn't an idiot. He knew something that was too good to be true when he saw it. He also knew that answering a craigslist ad for a roommate was a good way to get stabbed, robbed, and God only knew what else.

And yet...

Sometimes, when your options were limited it really was better to take every possible avenue to get away from the devil you know - even if that means sharing a small apartment with the devil you don't.

Well, the devil and his pet raven. And really, Chainsaw was by far the more agreeable of the two.

That being said, it wasn't like Ronan was awful. He was an asshole, and he was downright grumpy bastard anytime before 11am. He listened to terrible music, if that trash could ever be considered such. Chainsaw was a sweetheart, though, always bringing Adam new shinies for his approval and sitting with him while he worked on a paper or research or any number of other assignments for his degree.

(Taking the risk that he had by jumping at that craigslist ad meant that he was able to cut back on his hours a little bit at work, go to school full time, and start amassing a savings account.)

And, okay, Ronan probably had some merits too. He could cook, for one thing. Not to say that Adam couldn't cook. He could - he just didn't like to. If it were up to him, he'd probably subsist on saltines and hard-boiled eggs. In fact, he had done exactly that for the first two weeks living with Ronan until the other man had dropped a full plate of breakfast in front of him, stole his crackers, and pointed at him. "Eat like a fucking grown-up," he'd said -and... well, that was that. Sure, Adam had tried to protest, but Ronan had just... started making food for the both of them and maybe if it was shitty food or even mediocre in quality Adam would have been able to ignore it - but it killed something inside Adam to waste food. Especially good food. And Ronan's food was fucking amazing.

So, there was that.

He also wasn't an absolute terror to be around. Having a conversation with Ronan Lynch was a choose-your-own-adventure novel written by very high geniuses. You really never knew what you were going to get and each alternate path was bound to be either completely bat-shit crazy or a humbling level of profound. Not only that, but Ronan didn't pull that alpha-male bullshit so many other men did where they refused to admit they didn't know something. No, when Adam proved that he knew what he was talking about when it came to cars, Ronan just said "teach me?" with such open intensity that Adam couldn't really tell him 'no', alright?

And then there were days like today, where Adam got home from an early shift at the garage to find Ronan sitting halfway out of their third-floor apartment, securing a thick rope to a hook above the window that definitely hadn't been there when Adam left that morning.

"Are you about to do something stupid again?" Adam called up to him as he got out of his car. Upon hearing his voice, Chainsaw (who had been circling anxiously above) crowed out a warbled imitation of speech that sounded a lot like 'Atom' and coasted down to him.

"Me? Stupid? Nah, this is gonna be fucking amazing," Ronan called back without looking away from his work.

Chainsaw landed on Adam's shoulder and clapped her beak affectionately near his ear. Adam dutifully lifted a hand to stroke at the soft feathers of her neck. If he also whispered 'hello beautiful girl, is your papa making trouble for you again?' it was between him and the bird and Ronan would never need to know.

Chainsaw crooned a tense 'kreh!' that Adam took as an affirmative.

"What exactly are you doing, Ronan Lynch?" Adam called up as he took another look at the setup, walking closer to the building. The rope that Ronan had just finished tying to the hook was already secured to a tree on the edge of the parking lot, the one that stood awkwardly out from the rest of the tree line. Their apartment complex was situated right on the edge of a forest preserve. A lot of Ronan's hair-brained ideas usually came back to the forest in one way or another.

"This is just a test run. If I can get it to work right, I'm going to set a line straight into the forest."

"Mm, yes, because... leaving civilization through a door is beneath you?"

Ronan paused, then grinned down at him, the expression somehow both boyish and savage in a way that always made Adam's heart jump for some reason. "Actually, yeah. Literally."

Adam rolled his eyes but didn't bother to fight the smile. "Punk."

"I resent that. I reject all labels, Parrish - you know that."

"Uh-huh. Sure. Well if you-- Ronan what are you doing?"

Ronan had produced what looked like a fucking tie (was that the one Ronan's brother Declan had been wearing when he came by for dinner a couple weeks back?) and had wrapped one end around his hand. As Adam watched, he flicked the loose end of the tie over the taut rope and then wrapped it around his other hand.

"Told you it was a test run, Parrish. That mean's I've actually got to test it."

"Ronan I don't think--"

But it was too late. Ronan had already jumped out of the fucking third-floor window like he was expecting to fly. For a second or two, he sort of did. The rope bowed but supported him and the smooth tie provided little friction as Ronan began to zoom down at a steep angle. Then the rope shuddered and went completely slack, the hook having torn free from the side of the building where it clearly had not been properly anchored. Ronan plummeted like a stone in a still pond.

"Ronan!" Adam did not make the active decision to move, but he was suddenly sprinting to where the jumbled heap of Ronan Lynch had landed on the rough pavement. Chainsaw had already launched ahead and was hopping around near Ronan's head, squawking out anxious reprimands of 'Kerah! Kerah!'

Adam skidded to his knees beside Ronan just as the other man was shakily trying to sit up. "What the FUCK Ronan Lynch!? What were you thinking!? You can't just jump out of a God-forsaken third-floor window like that. Do you want to be killed?" Adam didn't even care that the rural-Virginian flavor of his youth had coated his words in a thick batter, he was so mad.

Ronan blinked at him and there was a strange mix of confusion and pain and... something else on his face. "Scared, Parrish?" The words did not come out as teasing as they normally would.

"Scared? Scared? Of course I was scared. You... you fucking idiot!" Adam had to give himself a moment. He raked his fingers through his hair and took a deep breath, then another. He closed his eyes and tried to center himself. Fear and anger would get him nowhere, even if the fear had already set its nasty little hooks into each and every one of his nerve endings and the anger felt like the only way to burn them away.

A hand touched his shoulder, then his cheek. Adam opened his eyes and Ronan was wearing another indecipherable expression, his dark eyes hooded, his mouth pursed.

"Come on," Adam said as he leaned back so he could stand up. "Can you stand?" Chainsaw continued to hop around, but she'd stopped her distressed shouting, perhaps sensing that Adam was taking control and feeling more comfortable knowing that he would set things to rights, whatever that might mean.

Ronan was quiet for a moment, then seemed to shake himself out of his thoughts before giving a derisive snort. "It was just a little fall, Parrish, I'm --fuck!" Ronan had just tried to stand up, but his knee buckled out from under him as soon as he put his weight on it. "Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, alright. Alright. Shit. Fuck. That was a very bad idea. 0/10 would not recommend."

"The standing or the stupid fucking stunt you pulled jumping out of a goddamn window?" Adam asked. He attempted to make it as dry as possible, trying to get them back to some kind of equilibrium, but his heart was still racing a bit too fast and he could hear the angry bite in his own words.

Still didn't stop him from instantly stepping forward and catching Ronan, though. He wound an arm around Ronan's waist, guiding Ronan's arm over his shoulders so he could support him.

"The standing, of course. Shit! Ah... fuck. My idea for the apartment-forest zipline is fucking genius thank you."

Adam helped Ronan hobble forward, taking them back toward his car instead of the building. "Yeah. Right. Whatever you say, Lynch."

"Where are we going?"

"To the hospital, dumbass," Adam said with a roll of his eyes, all but shoving Ronan into the passenger seat. He held the door open for Chainsaw to be able to swoop in and land on the idiot's lap. The least Ronan could do was soothe her for the drive.

"You don't have--"

Adam cut him off with a glare. "We. Are. Going. To. The. Hospital. Am I being perfectly clear?"

"...yes." Ronan glared back, but then sank down in his seat, expression mulish.

Adam fixed him with a hard stare that lasted another few heartbeats, then gave a nod and snapped the door shut.

So yes, Ronan Lynch wasn't all that bad. Sometimes the devil you don't really is the better choice. Because sometimes that devil has a cute bird and makes good food and has great conversation. If he also scares the shit out of you on the regular and makes your heart race inexplicably, well, that's not so bad a deal. Right?

#asks #ficlet prompts #fanfic #pynch #trc #roommates au #adam parrish #ronan lynch #chainsaw #adam parrish x ronan lynch #pynch fanfic #trc fanfic

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emmerrr · 3 years

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Honestly I have way more questions after reading this book like ? And to me Bryde seems to have an ulterior motif :( I hope Ronan realises that the others aren’t against him and finally comes around. I think he’s being a bit too dramatic about the bryde following thing like ok we get it you want a connection to a dreamer so badly which is understandable but what was his plan? Drive around with hennessy and bryde forever, completely disregarding his old life?

Also i didnt get pynch breakup vibes at all from the book or ending. I just hope ronan meets adam in dream space and helps him out and that they finally talk and get to the same page

i apologise for rambling a bit here but i have thoughts and this ask seemed as good an opportunity as any to jot them down. also i’m not great at coherently articulating a thought so please forgive me, i don’t do a whole lot of meta stuff. ANYWAY.

the thing is that for so long now, ronan’s main ambition with regards to his dreaming is to create something that will enable matthew to not fall asleep if something happens to ronan. add on to this that you have a ronan who is sort of adrift at the barns and has never had anyone to talk about his dreaming to that really understands, so what he wants is a purpose and a sense of belonging. which i guess is how he ended up manifesting bryde; he wanted it too much.

so now you have bryde who has this purpose built in; he wants what ronan wants and he knows how to do it. i don’t think the allure of that can be understated in regards to ronan. as far as he’s concerned, he’s suddenly got this seemingly noble crusade for dreamers and dreams alike, the means to do it, as well as people (bryde and hennessy) around him who can understand him in a way that none of ronan’s loved ones can. throw in the moderators who’re trying to kill them for dreaming when not dreaming would kill them eventually anyway, and it’s not hard to see why ronan feels so justified in this. the nightwash nearly kills him a couple times; he’s trying to carve out some space to live in a world that seems hellbent on killing him.

i don’t think his plan was just to drive around with hennessy and bryde forever and forget about everyone and everything else, but i also don’t think he’s particularly planning too many steps ahead in general anyway. everything is very urgent, very now, and ronan is just doing what bryde tells him to. i don’t think he can afford to think about much else, because like i said, for the first time he has a cause. after feeling alienated for so long, i don’t think he’s willing to think about the larger implications of what he’s actually doing.

and bryde absolutely has an ulterior motive. he came from ronan and lindenmere (thank u @malewiferonan for reminding me that bryde came from lindenmere too which is how he has knowledge that supercedes ronan’s) but given the existence of the sweetmetal and everything they’re doing to strenghten the ley lines, ronan staying alive is only something bryde needs in the short term. ultimately the goal is that all dreams can remain as they were even when their dreamers die, so if bryde reaches that goal there’s no need for ronan. also, ronan has people he cares about who aren’t dreamers or dreams; bryde doesn’t. i doubt he cares who might end up being collateral damage in his crusade; there are lines i am sure he is prepared to cross that ronan won’t be.

i think the fact that ronan hangs up on adam mid-sentence and then immediately throws the phone out the window at the end is quite telling. he doesn’t want to be reasoned with so he’s not even going to give adam the opportunity to try. as far as he’s concerned, declan gave him up to the moderators, hennessy turned her back on him, and now it seems like adam knew all about it, the final betrayal. it all feeds into this ‘us vs them’ mentality that has been at the core of bryde indoctrinating ronan into his little cult. it never quite took with hennessy, who feels alone even among other dreamers, but ronan has been so desperate for someone to teach him in a way his father never bothered to, that being around bryde is intoxicating. he’s not ready to give it up yet.

given what happened to the ley line at the end of the book, it’s hard to say what’s going to go down in the next book. but i think there will come a tipping point, a line that ronan will not cross, and when that happens, i hope he’ll start to let adam back in. ultimately, i think he’s going to remember that there are people who love him, and that there’s a solution to his problems that don’t involve, you know....destroying the world???

#mr impossible #mi spoilers #dreamertrilogy #emma answers #anon #trc asks #long post

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eruditetyro · 4 years

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this is under a readmore because people follow me who haven’t read call down the hawk!!! definite spoilers ahead please don’t read if you haven’t finished the book!!

so from chaos and vexed to nightmare. when you google “from chaos vexed to nightmare” all that comes up is that one yeats poem that fucking hozier and every other creator seems to quote all the time, The Second Coming. so I was reading an analysis of this poem and I have theories about mor o corra and niall and the new fenian. I think the situation is perhaps mirroring yeats’ life in that he was in love with maud but she ended up marrying some guy with “more revolutionary spirit.” obviously the new fenian is niall but is also tied to fenians which are members of the irish republican brotherhood.

so niall emigrated to america from ireland for a reason, right? likely he was tied to whatever revolution mor o corra was in, but he wasn’t enough of a revolutionary for her, or he had to leave, and so he was replaced by the new fenian. I’ve seen lots of theories about this and it’s common theory that mor o corra is the person aurora was based off of but furthermore i would like to posit that mor o corra herself, declan’s real mother, is also a dreamer or perhaps even a visionary, or maybe just otherwise associated with magic (I DO NOT believe that adam is a visionary. adam’s never had a vision, first of all, and he’s 19, and most visionaries are supposedly destroying themselves at that point, right? the fox way psychics aren’t visionaries. hennessy is not a visionary and still saw the lace, ronan’s dream where adam is grown up can be explained as a symptom of them growing up and ronan wanting to grow old with adam. it’s not that deep) -- if mor o corra is not a dreamer, though, i’m not sure how the new fenian came about, because i’m quite sure he is a dream copy of niall.

now obviously boudicca and the new fenian are connected. i wonder how deep that goes? was the new fenian created for boudicca? did niall go to america to distance himself from boudicca? in the books boudicca seems to be primarily or entirely made up of women, and so perhaps mor o corra intercepted declan’s request and sent the new fenian, who has no real direct connection to boudicca. i’m excited to find out more about all this in the next book.

I also wonder how bryde is connect to all of this. I think his irish story about the fish/hawk man was obviously about himself. I think he sees himself this way. that’s good in that it paints him in a positive light as a wise figure and ronan is very much at his mercy at the end of the book, but I’m still hesitant to trust him as we know so damn little about him. how has he figured out how to find dreamers? is he tapped into the ley lines, somehow? why is the lace frightened of him? what is the lace? I’m betting it’s connected to the ley lines and the end of the world. I wonder if it’s what ultimately sends the visions to the visionaries. the whole concept of the visionaries is fascinating. I wonder where they come from and how they work-- it seems strange to have a condition where your only choices are to turn it outward and hurt everyone around you or turn it inward and hurt yourself. surely there’s a third way. I wouldn’t be surprised if maggie explores that in the rest of the trilogy.

I really wonder what liliana’s deal is. I don’t think she wants to kill dreamers at all. my dream is that she and carmen work together against the agency after carmen finally caves to her conflicting morals. liliana seems to only be working with the agency as a way to get to where she wants to be, not as an end goal, you know?

is it possible that declan’s parents are both dreamers? is it possible that there’s more to declan than declan knows? I wonder how declan found out that aurora isn’t his mother. I’m so happy that he’s finally allowing himself a little personality. there’s really no point in him hiding anymore.

and adam. I really hope he’s ok. I don’t think he’s a visionary, and I expect he’ll be reunited with ronan at some point in the next book. I’m worried that he’ll have to drop out of harvard due to magic shit. I’m worried he’ll break up with ronan to attend harvard. I’m worried he’ll be kidnapped and used for evil. I’m worried that the lace has him.

those are all my current thoughts on greater plot stuff. if you’ve read the book and want to bounce theories i’d love to hear from you!

#cdth #cdth spoilers /#do NOT read more if you haven't read the book!!!!!

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